TOMDM

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by TOMDM 5y ago
I need a self managed solution, so I'm not sure Pinecone is feasible and I don't think pgvector scales well enough for my use-case (hundreds of millions of vectors). So far I think I'm going to go with Milvus[1], ideally I&#x
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by TOMDM 5y ago
The query parallelism for foreign data wrappers bring PostgreSQL one step closer to being the one system that can tie all your different data sources together into one source. Really exciting stuff.
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by TOMDM 5y ago
PostgreSQL is one of those tools I know I can always rely on for a new use-case. There are very few cases where it can't do exactly what I need (large scale vector search/retrieval). Congrats on the 14.0 release. The pace of open
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by TOMDM 5y ago
Not quite what you're after, but there's a matplotlib style made to look like xkcd https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot....
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by TOMDM 5y ago
People aren't spewing falsehoods for a lack of people pointing out the truth, they do so in spite of the truth presented to them.
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by TOMDM 5y ago
Yeah sure, just let me punch in a database conenction string to one of my databases with both username and password. I understand this is probably an honest and useful service but man does that spike some red flags for me, and I worry about
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by TOMDM 5y ago
I knew what this would be before I clicked and still ended up watching the whole story again. I think it makes up the crux of what makes Dwarf Fort great. You don't need two massive hideously complex systems, when hundreds of smaller o
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by TOMDM 5y ago
I really wish I could jump ship from Nvidia. Having CUDA is just too important for work though, I really wish more ML libraries would add ROCm support. I understand it's now supported in Pytorch, but doing something like finetuning a T
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by TOMDM 5y ago
Snap permissions are a mess. The fact that I have to give Remmina each of its permissions one at a time after installing with snap is silly.
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by TOMDM 5y ago
Are there any good examples of this already out there? It feels like a good idea, but I imagine it would be very fragile in black swan events. Maybe a mix? Provide the dashboards, but allow users to set up alerts/workflows, they unders
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by TOMDM 5y ago
I like the idea. Only works if you've got buy-in from management though.
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by TOMDM 5y ago
I've been doing a fair amount of BI work myself recently. I reckon of the 90% that don't make any data driven decisions with the dashboards they're provided, there are three causes I run into frequently. 1. They can't de
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by TOMDM 5y ago
These laptops would be an instant buy from me if I could get a new AMD chip instead of the Intel CPU's.
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by TOMDM 5y ago
Agreed. Not to mention he takes ages to say not much. There are some good points buried in here, but it takes him over 5 minutes before he's even on topic.
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by TOMDM 5y ago
To quote his major points - Founders banished - Community in shambles - Companies losing linux focus - Core system components reaching unsustainability - Google building a replacement (Fuschia) - Statistically unlikely to stay active much l
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by TOMDM 5y ago
I think what's being pointed out is that "researchers" could pump out hundreds of easy to test negatives every day if a negative result was just as incentivised. I do agree though, negatives are just as important when the int
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by TOMDM 5y ago
I think the person you're replying to is arguing all exemptions of conscience should be ubiquitous. That we shouldn't have to rely on religion to fight that proxy battle for us.
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by TOMDM 5y ago
The OP had me wondering why anyone would use that instead of just downloading the data and serving it locally. This is much more interesting though
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by TOMDM 5y ago
The vaccine does work. It lowers your chance of getting it and thus spreading it significantly and it severely lowers your chance of having a severe reaction in the case of a breakthrough infection. The only reason it hasn't worked at
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by TOMDM 5y ago
I could maybe buy people being lax about masks and social distancing because of the vaccine, but surely you don't think the vaccine itself has made the virus more pervasive?
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by TOMDM 5y ago
Plenty of motorcyclists would also argue that louder exhausts are safer but the data doesn't bare that out either. Yes I'm pro motorcycle helmet.
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by TOMDM 5y ago
If people could take a shot or two that massively reduces the risk of sugar induced cancer, diabetes and heart disease they'd be fools not to take it.
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by TOMDM 5y ago
Reduces the likelihood of unhealthy outcomes. Excessive consumption of soda and beer have negative health consequences, and taxing them could lower consumption. It also doesn't have the contagious element that viruses do, but if you on
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by TOMDM 5y ago
That was a really interesting read, thank you I guess we have Elizabeth Dole to thank in part for near ubiquitous air bags and seatbelts. I hate to think how many would die every year without them.
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by TOMDM 5y ago
I can't believe we're still arguing this on this forum of all places. The very worst estimates of the vaccines efficacy rate against the Delta variant sit at 30-50% for various measures. People on this forum are ecstatic about imp
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by TOMDM 5y ago
If it weren't already standard, there is no way we'd be able to mandate seat belts today. EDIT: I'm pro seatbelt just in case that needed clarifying
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by TOMDM 5y ago
Unless you mean a very literal "at our expense" as in dollars paid for a highly effective vaccine, are you implying that the vaccine has been a net negative?
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El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so(nbcnews.com)
222 points by TOMDM 5y ago|369 comments
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by TOMDM 5y ago
Eh, no harm, 200+ comments and no one complaining. People obviously still see value in discussing it
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by TOMDM 5y ago
Previous discussion from a couple days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28415582

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